Chessie

I first encoun­tered this album years ago, when some­body men­tioned it in a forum thread about favorite album art. The cov­er is cer­tain­ly intrigu­ing, with that fat sans (Futu­ra?) and the glow­ing pur­ple moun­tain — and like all good album art, it real­ly lends some­thing to the sound it’s rep­re­sent­ing. The DC band does a kind of chug­ging, throb­bing, ambi­ent dronescape thing, which is typ­i­cal­ly more form­less than the tracks I’m shar­ing here. Overnight is their third and most recent LP, from 2001.